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Nathaniel Hawthorne

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Selfishness is one of the qualities apt to inspire love.


— Nathaniel Hawthorne


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What other dungeon is so dark as one's own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one's self!


— Nathaniel Hawthorne


#dungeon #heart #inexorable #jailer #other

A woman's chastity consists, like an onion, of a series of coats.


— Nathaniel Hawthorne


#coats #consists #like #onion #series

Life is made up of marble and mud.


— Nathaniel Hawthorne


#made #marble #mud #up

Sunlight is painting.


— Nathaniel Hawthorne


#sunlight

The world owes all its onward impulses to men ill at ease. The happy man inevitably confines himself within ancient limits.


— Nathaniel Hawthorne


#confines #ease #happy #happy man #himself

We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death.


— Nathaniel Hawthorne


#congratulate #death #dream #may #moment

Moonlight is sculpture.


— Nathaniel Hawthorne


#sculpture

Mountains are earth's undecaying monuments.


— Nathaniel Hawthorne


#monuments #mountains

My fortune somewhat resembled that of a person who should entertain an idea of committing suicide, and, altogether beyond his hopes, meet with the good hap to be murdered.


— Nathaniel Hawthorne


#beyond #committing #entertain #fortune #good






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Suffering from pain in his stomach Hawthorne insisted on a recuperative trip with his friend Franklin Pierce though his neighbor Bronson Alcott was concerned Hawthorne was too ill. Guests that came to speak that season included Emerson Thoreau Louis Agassiz and Theodore Parker. Selected works


Novels
Fanshawe (publiNathaniel Hawthorned anonymously 1828)
The Scarlet Letter (1850)
The House of the Seven Gables (1851)
The Blithedale Romance (1852)
The Marble Faun: Or The Romance of Monte Beni (1860) (as Transformation: Or The Romance of Monte Beni UK publication same year)
The Dolliver Romance (1863) (unfiniNathaniel Hawthorned)
Septimius Felton; or the Elixir of Life (PubliNathaniel Hawthorned in the Atlantic Monthly 1872)
Doctor Grimshawe's Secret: A romance (unfiniNathaniel Hawthorned) with Preface and Notes by Julian Hawthorne (1882)


Short story collections
Twice-Told Tales (1837)
Grandfather's Chair (1840)
Mosses from an Old Manse (1846)
The Snow-Image and Other Twice-Told Tales (1852)
A Wonder-Book for Girls and Boys (1852)
Tanglewood Tales (1853)
The Dolliver Romance and Other Pieces (1876)
The Great Stone Face and Other Tales of the White Mountains (1889)
The Celestial Railroad and Other Short Stories


Selected short stories
"Roger Malvin's Burial" (1832)
"My Kinsman Major Molineux" (1832)
"Young Goodman Brown" (1835)
"The Gray Champion" (1835)
"The White Old Maid" (1835)
"Wakefield" (1835)
"The Ambitious Guest" (1835)
"The Minister's Black Veil" (1836)
"The Man of Adamant" (1837)
"The Maypole of Merry Mount" (1837)
"The Great Carbuncle" (1837)
"Dr.

The Scarlet Letter was publiNathaniel Hawthorned in 1850 followed by a succession of other novels. He entered Bowdoin College in 1821 was elected to Phi Beta Kappa in 1824 and graduated in 1825.

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